High School Sports

LAKEWOOD -- Brighton High School came away with two, top-10 finishes in the second day of the state 5A track-and-field meet at Jeffco Stadium Friday.

Katelyn Ellis wound up fifth in the high jump at 5 feet 4 inches. That's just an inch off the school record.

Rachael Lopez, who finished 15th in the 800-meter run the past two state meets and who was on the 15th-place relay team in the 4-by-800-meter relay Thursday, took sixth in this year's 800-meter run. Her time was 2:16.26.

BRIGHTON -- Collin Tabor signed his letter of intent to play basketball at Webster University in St. Louis May 15.

He wanted to play for a school in the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference. Some RMAC schools offered him a football scholarship but nothing for basketball.

Webster University offered the next best option .. a chance to play basketball and to study journalism.

"I'm really excited to play a sport I love for four more years," he said. "It's really a special day."

Soccer

Brighton bounced Aurora Central 10-0 Thursday behind five goals and three from Ashley Contreras and four more tallies from Payton Bonino.

Goalkeeper Sara Day recorded the shutout and had two saves.

BHS and Poudre played to a scoreless draw Friday night in Fort Collins. Day recorded two saves in net for the Bulldogs.

Brighton shut out Prairie View 1-nil Saturday morning on the T-Hawks' field. Ashley Contreras scored the game's goal in the 64th minute.

BRIGHTON — The Prairie View pipeline to Colorado State University-Pueblo is open again.
    This time, it claimed ThunderHawks’ volleyball player Lindsay Miller. She signed her letter of intent last week.
    “I had interest from schools in West Virginia and Maryland,” she said. “I didn’t want to go that far. I also had Oklahoma Panhandle interested. For a few years I had some smaller colleges and Junior Colleges like Otero and Trinidad.”